Jesus this is not good for AMD lol! Their 7870 and 7950 are getting smacked around by the 660ti. :shadedshu

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Most people would not give this comment a second look given your name. In any case, it performs on average between the HD7870 and HD 7950. It also is priced between those two. Settle down, all is as it should be.

2 GB memory has proven to be more than enough. The GTX 690 has proven that. True "Memory bottleneck" comes with bandwith and overclocking increases that bandwith so performance should increase as such.

Most people would not give this comment a second look given your name. In any case, it performs on average between the HD7870 and HD 7950. It also is priced between those two. Settle down, all is as it should be.

2 GB memory has proven to be more than enough. The GTX 690 has proven that. True "Memory bottleneck" comes with bandwith and overclocking increases that bandwith so performance should increase as such.

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Im kidding. The 660ti reference is the same speed as a 7950 for $299. IWth the non reference cards that a clocked a bit, it beats the 7950.

Right speed of memory can make a difference, only if that memory is starved any little bit if its memory bus size etc. However if your playing a game that is pulling all the vram you have an the FPS is lower then it should, its pull out of your system memory and that'll really bog down your game FPS. I experienced this with my GTX470 on skyrim when I had one.

Do you really honestly think they overclock even remotely the same? really?

Than let me tell you something after 5 HD7950s and 3 GTX660Tis, they don't, not even close. As one can easily improve about 12% performance, the other about 35% (no big voltage bumps)
All of the HD7950's i've ran into can 1025Mhz at stock voltage, that is adding about 22-24% performance to HD7950's summery.

Do you really honestly think they overclock even remotely the same? really?

Than let me tell you something after 5 HD7950s and 3 GTX660Tis, they don't, not even close. As one can easily improve about 12% performance, the other about 35% (no big voltage bumps)

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When did I say they overclock the same lol! If your going to overclock one. you got to overclock the other then same percentage if thats possible for it to be a fair comparison. Its a given fact for this generation that AMD cards are able to scale a fair bit better then Nvidias.

Do you really honestly think they overclock even remotely the same? really?

Than let me tell you something after 5 HD7950s and 3 GTX660Tis, they don't, not even close. As one can easily improve about 12% performance, the other about 35% (no big voltage bumps)
All of the HD7950's i've ran into can 1025Mhz at stock voltage, that is adding about 22-24% performance to HD7950's summery.

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It is obvious, apart from the overclocking advantage the 7000 series offer, that the 7950 and the 660Ti are not in the same league even if the 660Ti wins in some situations. The direct competition is the 7870 where the 660ti is the better card no doubt but price is the key here to make it a successful card.

Im impressed, and i haven't been to impressed by Nvidia for a few yrs now, but this card is WIN, looks like ill be going back to Nvidia next yr and getting two of these. Bit to expensive at the moment at between $350 and $410, compared to the 7870 which is between $300 and $360 which was going to be my next upgrade till this card came out.

Im impressed, and i haven't been to impressed by Nvidia for a few yrs now, but this card is WIN, looks like ill be going back to Nvidia next yr and getting two of these. Bit to expensive at the moment at between $350 and $410, compared to the 7870 which is between $300 and $360 which was going to be my next upgrade till this card came out.